Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-07

class, and are things that but little of each,
are needed by the people, and can afford
to be heavily taxed. Again, as the amount
of expense of courts is, we admit, in
creased by the Incorporate use of whisky,
that business should bear the burden of
this expense. The man who permits his
appetites to get away with him and bring
trouble on himself and country ought to
pay for it. Hence the license on whisky
and such articles Wills Point Chron
icle.
We hope Colonel Mills in his next will
tell us the difference between personal
liberty and civil liberty. He has told US
great deal about personal liberty but
civil liberty has been by him entirely
overlooked. Also give US few thoughts
on the difference between a legal right
and q licensed privilege, and to which of
the latter does the running of saloon
belong? Is this one of the inalienable
rights that cannot be abridged, or is it a
privilege acquired after q compliance
with the requirements of law Corsi-
cana Democrat.
The delegates to the anti-prohibition
convention, which meets in Dallas to-
morrow, are already girding up their
loins for the fight. San Antonio's con-
tingent leaves this evening, and will
doubtless give good account of them
selves. After this formal Inauguration
of the campaign against fanaticism, the
personal liberty fight will be waged with
more energy and unison of idea and
purpose than has been apparent hereto
fore Uhprp Thrpa no
the fight. If the prohibitionists win,
Texas becomes, as is Iowa, Maine,
Rhode Island and Kansas, free-whlsky-
and-no-revenue state. No more import
ant duty ever devolved upon any politi-
cal convention in Texas than devolves
upon this non-pRrtisan, non-political
gathering which meets at Dallas to-mor-
row. A convention over which the pro
hibition organs will howl worse
than all the ours of CONSTANT
which the good people of Texas must
look for deliverance from the most per
niCiOus form of fanaticism that the fanat-
zeal ages have given birth to- San Anto-
MO Light.
Some papers are blowing about the
state whisky traffic annually paying the
government 81, 100000. We don't doubt
the assertion at all. But instead of
stopping here like the other papers, we
will Just look little further in and see
from whence this enormous sum comes
How much whisky does a salOOn-keeper
sell, dear reader, for every dollar he pays
in revenue to the state of Texas? We
don't mean the profit he makes, but how
many dollars worth of whisky and other
mixtures does he sell? We imagine we
hear you guessing all the way from $50
to $1,000, and we don't know but what
you are right, too, as the tax is the same
on the large city saloons Gs those in the
smallest village. We will take the small
estimate of 500 now, however, and
imagine the saloon keepers so liberal as
to give Texas 81 every time be sells $1GO
worth of poison. At the end of the year
Texas counts her pile and it is found that
she has received 100000. Now how
much liquor would the saloon keeper
have soId?-Sl0O.0 900, 900 is the enormous
sum. 1t is hardly necessary to say who
pays this mOney-eVery town has it's con-
tributors, no matter whether there is
feast or famine in other things. Where
does this $100,O00,O0O go? Well, about
half of it goes out of Texas forever, and
finds its way to the northern distillers
and brewers. The other half we are
willing to allow them for profit, and we
leave it to you, dear reader, to where it
goes to, as it is very poor saloon keeper,
indeed, who cannot sport diamond stud
and gold watch.
Now directly from the sale of this $lO0,
1000 worth of whisky (for Iegslizing
which the state has been paid 81 ,000,000)
how many people are murdered, how
much theft has been committed, to say
nothing of the shooting scrapes, stabbing
ARRAYS, knock downs, etc., of minor i'm
portance. To give our readers basis
for estimate it is not necessary to go
away from home. Nearly every one of
our readers are acquainted with the San
ders- Moody case. Two years ago on
March 81, Joe Bowers and John
Bagwell were trading in Thornton.
After buying $40 saddle and 81 worth
of whisky they came to Kosse, where they
met Moody and Saunders. The four then
proceeded toward the Tom Bates place,
drinking aud shooting their pistols con-
tinuOusly. On the road they overlook a
negro man and little negro girl whom
they shot dead without any warning or
provocetion. This 81 worth of whisky
has so far cost the state over 100000 and
the fun is not yet over. Now where
does this $4,000 come from? 1t comes
from the peaceful, law abiding citizens
of this county by what? Taxation
Now would this not be far better to
lose this 81, 900, 900 revenue, saving it ten
fold by less taxes, or, if need be, take I'D
a collection for the amount? There would
then be 500, 100000 left with which to
clothe, feed, shoe and educate the chill
dren of Texas, and instead of hard times
and panics the mills that are now closed
down would start up with wonderful "a
pidity and the farmer would get better
price for his cotton and other products
T Kosse Cyclone.
Joint resolution to amend section
20 of article Is of the state constitution:
Section l. Be it resolved by the Legis-
Iature of the state of Texas, that section
20 of article 16 of the constitution 0e so
amended as to read as follows, to-wit:
Sec. 20. The manufacture, sale and eX-
change of Intoxicating LIQUORS eXcent for